Courses
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Planning for Conservation: Urban South Asia Research Seminar
This seminar looks to urban conservation strategies to explore issues concerning contemporary urbanism in South Asia. The course aims to bring together the contingent nature…
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Slums in Architectural and Planning History
When and why did informality become an urban and architectural matter? Contemporary projects developed within precarious settlements and overcrowded areas are often interpreted as epitomes…
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Planning for the 21st Century: Emerging Trends, Challenges and Opportunities
What role does design play in the planning process? How will demographic and other emerging trends influence how we design and plan for communities for…
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Territorial Intelligence: Towards an Evidence Based Design
Disciplines linked to cities are experiencing a period defiant to conventional theory, methodologies, programs and projects. In understanding that design is not solely an aesthetic…
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Modern Housing and Urban Districts: Concepts, Cases and Comparisons
This seminar course will deal with ‘modern housing’ covering a period primarily from 1990 to the present. It will engage with ‘urban districts’ in so…
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The Fourth Typology: Dominant Type and the Idea of the City
Open to all students, the seminars in this course will compliment Option Studio 1503: The Countryside as a City. It will provide the theoretical and…
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Real Estate and City Making in China
Real estate has increasingly become a compelling force in the process of city making, one uniquely capable of leading and guiding multiple steps in the…
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Mapping Cultural Space: Sites, Systems, and Practices Across Eurasia
Eve Blau, Julie Buckler, Kelly Ann O’Neill-Uzgiris
The seminar will explore the significance of cultural space as both an object and a tool of analysis, taking as its focus Eurasia, an area…
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Preparation for Independent Thesis Proposal for MUP, MAUD, or MLAUD
This seminar is intended to provide the theoretical and methodological foundation for completing a graduate thesis in the Department of Urban Planning and Design. By…
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Risk and Resilience Proseminar
The Risk and Resilience Proseminar provides MDes students in this concentration with an introduction to discourses on risk and resilience that intersect with key issues…
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Doctoral Program Proseminar
This pro-seminar is one way of fulfilling a requirement for successful completion of the Doctor of Design program. Primarily, it will focus on various thematic…